Re: How To Build A Wooden Boat

Hello Mike!How are you? Thank you for the kindly words, its seems that you reach what I was trying to say, I don t know why I was misinterpreted by Gordon but

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, Jul 13, 2008

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Hello Mike!How are you? Thank you for the kindly words, its seems
that you reach what I was trying to say, I don't know why I was
misinterpreted by Gordon but I'll sure be more careful for now on
if I make any comment on the group.

>
> I would discount arrogance as a cause of friction here Gordon; it
> really has a significantly different meaning and measure for

Gordo.

> He's a Brazilian who's native language is Portuguese. There is

plenty

> of arrogance here and there but there it's meaning makes his advice
> more like a fatherly admonition than a cutdown.
>
> Gordo is in the planning stages of building a traditional Atkin's
> sloop; like translating white oak into a locally obtainable wood
> useful for steam bending or to balance that strip planking over
> laminated frames in locally obtainable woods.
>
> I give him extra credit for reaching over thousands of miles and a
> whole culture to glean what he needs from forums like this. He's

just

> trying to be friendly and learn, he's not trying to make trouble.
> He's also here for on topic reasons since his project is an Atkins

> > was
> > > always interested in the history of Slocum, and also about

his

> > boat,
> > > after all lots of people like the Joshua lines, but I read
> > something
> > > disturbing about her, its seems that in strong conditions of
> > weather
> > > a boat of her lines and dimensions became unstable and can
> > capsize
> > > and not get right side up again, that was one of the

explanation

> > > about the disappear of Slocum in his last journey. This was

a

> > study
> > > made by an naval arquitet I read in a article in the web,

--- In AtkinBoats@yahoogroups.com, "John Kohnen" <jkohnen@...> wrote:
>
> David Clemmer has created an excellent photo essay of the building
of a
> Vintage:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6y8hee
>
> They're doing it Right!
>
> --
> John <jkohnen@...>
> School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of
> human existence . They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks,
> new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense
> and common decency. <H. L. Mencken>
>

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